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It was on TCM today. Not bad at all, but anything with Van Hefflin is OK with me. I always look for LQ Jones, too.Battle Cry (1955)
Too CGI.Devotion, the Korean war movie about Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner. I really liked it. Did not seem to do too well overall, which is a shame.
I have said before on the forum, my favorite line in the movie is when the kitchen staff and clerks are given rifles and moved out, when one says, "I ain't never fired an M-1 before. The 03 was the last one I shot." The other G.I. says, "This is a gas operated, clip fed, semi-automatic..." "Look! Yuh ain't selling it to me. How does it work?" "Oh, you just pull this back, push in the clip and you're ready to go?"It was on TCM today. Not bad at all, but anything with Van Hefflin is OK with me. I always look for LQ Jones, too.
I like Battleground better, primarily for James Whitmore's performance as the Sergeant. His performance lent a hard-edged authenticity to the movie as he had been an infantryman himself. Anyone who has ever spent time in the field in central Europe in the winter can appreciate the conditions this was fought under, the bone-chilling damp cold that eats into your soul. This movie does a good job of portraying that.
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Lots of good dialog in this movie Soldiers are always bitching about something and this movie captures that. "A Walk In The Sun", on the other hand has endless dialog that no soldiers ever spoke.I have said before on the forum, my favorite line in the movie is when the kitchen staff and clerks are given rifles and moved out, when one says, "I ain't never fired an M-1 before. The 03 was the last one I shot." The other G.I. says, "This is a gas operated, clip fed, semi-automatic..." "Look! Yuh ain't selling it to me. How does it work?" "Oh, you just pull this back, push in the clip and you're ready to go?"
Devotion, the Korean war movie about Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner. I really liked it. Did not seem to do too well overall, which is a shame.
"All Quiet on the Western Front", Netflix. Very impressive. I grew up with a WW1 German groundsheet, at the cottage and that war imprinted on young-me more than WW2.
The depiction of the mud, the poor horses, and of cadavers is masterful.
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Is it as good as the 1930'ies version?"All Quiet on the Western Front", Netflix. Very impressive. I grew up with a WW1 German groundsheet, at the cottage and that war imprinted on young-me more than WW2.
The depiction of the mud, the poor horses, and of cadavers is masterful.
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Is it as good as the 1930'ies version?
... you mean the silent B&W version?Is it as good as the 1930'ies version?
Scan those family pictures and save them in a .jpg file!... you mean the silent B&W version?
Yes, thanks to technology - BTW there is a wonderful documentary on Netflix on 'the making of ..' In a few minutes you get the value.
When the book was written, Hitler was not in power. By the time he was, Erich Marie Remarque was famous and living in Switzerland.
The Nazis banned him and his books - he was 'unpatriotic'.
Marcel, beyond all else, the relevance of this FILM to events today is overwhelming .. and back then the drones were balloons.
Treatment is a little 'interpretive' ... book starts 1916 .... film, last days. Film sets context for Nazis and Hitler in a manner the book does not - written in 1924. But Remarque would NOT object to the treatment, IMO.
I am unravelling heritage family paper work .... Grandad a battery Sgt Mj in Canadian artillery flying column - the duration. We see from Ukraine how effective mobile artillery can be. They did with horses - thro Pachendale.
Pictures ... family pictures .... what happens to them.
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